Category: Careers

Don’t let anyone (including yourself) tell you that you can’t find a paying job you’ll love. I’ve been working in renewable energy for Renewable Energy Systems (RES) for almost eighteen months now and I can’t imagine myself doing anything more engaging, rewarding, or fun for a living. My current adventures have taken me to Glasgow, where I have joined the wind resource analysis team. Essentially, the team uses data collected from instruments on a potential wind farm site plus third party meteorological data to generate a forecast that can be used to determine how much power would be generated if…

It was long assumed by others (and for a time, me included) that I was destined for a career in the financial services. If you look at the two years I spent as Junior Common Room treasurer, the four years I spent mastering mathematics and the accountancy internship I did the summer after my third year at university, the evidence quickly stacks up. However, it was during said internship that I discovered I really wasn’t suited for the industry. Since I wasn’t interested in teaching I felt, as a future maths graduate, the options open to me were now incredibly…

Before, during and after university I asked a lot of people about how to get into journalism, all of whom came back with different answers. But the main message was always the same – it’s an impossible career to get into. It isn’t. This negative message seems to be echoed in the picture the media paints of itself too; that job opportunities are gold dust and that knowing someone in the industry is the only way in. This isn’t true either. It was enough to drive me away from a journalism degree, and instead I resigned myself to the prison…